Technology

Complex and Contradictory Regulations Stifling Innovation in Nigeria, Says Tim Akano

Until the Nigerian Government takes drastic steps to tackle the complex and contradictory regulations that stifle innovation, significant of innovation for sustainable development in Nigeria will remains in doldrum notwithstanding the evidences that the innovation ecosystem is driven primarily by young population, who are increasingly tech-savvy and entrepreneurial. This sad state of the nation’s innovative […]

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Business

iHATCH Startup Incubation Cohorts Boost Tech Sector by Over 1179 Jobs as Cohort 3 Winners Emerge

The iHATCH startup incubation programme has been able to create 1179 jobs within three years of its formation.The jobs, which were created by Cohort 1 and 2 had 16 trained startups with 32 participants, and a combined job of 179 and over 1000 indirect jobs. According to the Director General of the National Information Technology […]

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Business

Utiva, Tuteria & AltSchoolAfrica on 50 Finalists List of Africa’s Business Heroes Contest

Three of Nigeria’s innovation solution providers are among the fifty finalists, who are uplifting their communities through the use of innovation, have been selected for the next round of the fifth edition of the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition, a competition of the philanthropic programme spearheaded by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy to […]

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Technology

Hafide Fintech Startup Picked for UNDP’s Timbuktoo Accelerator

Hafide Accounting, a Somaliland-based startup, has been selected for the famed Timbuktoo Africa Fintech Accelerator in Lagos, Nigeria. The Accelerator is United Nations Development Programme’s effort to ignite the African innovation ecosystem by supporting and investing in Africa’s best talent via 8 themed Timbuktoo hubs in 8 countries, 54 University Innovation Pods across Africa, and […]

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Awarri Team
 Business

Awarri Startup Selected for Nigeria’s First AI Project Engages 500 Fellows

Nigeria Reaps from Own tech Talent Programme…  Awarri, the Nigerian startup selected to build the country’s first AI, has engaged over 500 fellows of the federal government’s ‘3 Million Technical Talent’ (3MTT) programme. The aim is to use the cohort as data collectors in building the multilingual large language model. The Minister of Communications, Innovation, […]

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L-R: Briefly Bio Founders, Staffan Piledahl, Dr Katya Putintseva, Harry Rickerby
 Business

Briefly Bio Launches $1.2m Funding for Scientists to Reproduce Complex Experiments 

Science is in a reproducibility crisis. In preclinical research, it’s estimated that over 50% of efforts to reproduce experiments fail, costing the industry over $50bn each year. Solving this problem, techbio startup Briefly Bio has launched with software that makes lab work more reproducible by helping scientists capture and share their work clearly and consistently. With this […]

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CEO and founder for Huma, Dan Vahdat.
 Cloud Infrastructure

Huma Completes Series D $80m Financing, Launches Huma Cloud Platform with GenAI Integrations

Building and launching a scalable digital health product that meets regulatory demands typically takes a few years to deliver. Today, global healthcare AI company Huma Therapeutics Limited is announcing the completion of its Series D funding round to help cut that time down to days as it launches the Huma Cloud Platform. The platform offers no code […]

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Business

Open Startup Opens  Applications for $50,000 Pre-Seed Accelerator Program

AMA Press Release Open Startup (OST) continues its commitment to growing the African startup ecosystem with a call for applications for the OST Program. Developed in collaboration with Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School in New York, the program aims to support early-stage startups and promising talents from Tunisia, Senegal, and Morocco. The OST Program is designed to assist 30 […]

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Business

NITDA Plans One Innovation Hub for Each State, Eyes NYSC as Partner

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), is targeting the establishment of one innovation hub per state of the Federation so that when people learn they can have a place to develop their proof of concept. Director General NITDA Kashifu Inuwa revealed that NITDA is exploring partnership with the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) to […]

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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Business

Lagos State Govt Pledges N1bn Tech & Innovation Hub Fund Devt for Startups

The Lagos state government has authorised $671,000 (1 billion Naira) in initial funding for startups at the Lagos State Science, Research, and Innovation Council (LASRIC). The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this at the LASRIC opening last week as part of his administration’s plan to develop Lagos into a technology and innovation hub. Governor […]

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